Thanks Corneliu, I was unaware of giga-hosting but they look like a great solution for heavy hosting.
Regards ..... Mark Jarzebowski Director Software Engineering Business Model Systems (Victoria) Pty Ltd Kew Victoria www.bms.com.au On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 4:10 PM, Corneliu I. Tusnea <[email protected]>wrote: > I'm also on www.web24.com.au with my own physical servers (2x150Gb in > Mirror + 1x 450Gb). > > Once you get to 80-100Gb of data you kind of expect or hope to get some > income so $1000 or $2000 a year is not that much anymore. > Plus in that moment if you have the traffic you'll start getting charges > If you want just images/videos and they are all public drop them behind > Amazon and run your site somewhere else. > If you want to be ready to fly go Azure (they also have a CDN which is not > expensive) or Rackspace virtual servers or GoGrid. > > If you don't care about location I *highly* recommend Giga Hosting: > http://www.giga-hosting.biz/?show=server > e149/month for a server with 6x3.2Gb i7 + 80Gb SSD for primary site and 2Tb > HDD for storage + 100Mbp/s unlimited traffic (via 2x10Gb/s connections). > It's fast. It's bloody fast. And cheap. That's like $200/month. > > We used to run Facebook games hosted by these guys (we had a custom > configuration with 10,000rpm Velocity drives) and man it was delivering. > Super high spikes of traffic and db writes like I've never seen before. > > Corneliu. > > > > > On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Mark Jarzebowski <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hi Tom, >> >> domaincentral.com<http://domaincentral.supersite.myorderbox.com/hosting.php?type=w2k&location=us&category=hosting>(US >> servers Aust company) >> >> crazydomains.com.au<http://www.crazydomains.com.au/web_hosting/index.html>(Australian >> servers) >> >> Both offer "unlimited" disk space in a shared hosting environment with >> ASP.NET <http://asp.net/> and SQL Sever support. >> >> I use both for a range of applications and while I would not count on >> using 1000Tb of space they both work reasonably well for smallish apps (<200 >> users). Both are very cheap (less than $200pa). >> >> If you need industrail strength hosting with lost of disk space try >> esxhosting.com.au >> They offer windows 2008 VPS with remote desktop control and the ability to >> expand to huge amounts of disk space. One of my apps is projected to grow to >> 10Tb of sapce and they can handle that with ease on thier SANs. >> >> I use esxhosting and it works very well. Prices are very competitive with >> other VPS providers (Azure and Amazon also) and the servers are based >> in Sydney. you can expad and contract your space (and cost) very quickly and >> easily. >> >> I also use www.web24.com.au who can provide huge amounts of disk and >> server resources from their Melbourne data centre. However beyond about 80Gb >> of space you need to lease physical servers which require substantial >> committment and $$$. But you get a high quality service. >> >> Another important consideration is the financial strength of your hosting >> provider. What hasppens to you business if they go broke or out of business. >> In this area I think Azure and Amazon (and Google) win hands down. >> >> >> Regards ..... Mark Jarzebowski >> Director Software Engineering >> Business Model Systems (Victoria) Pty Ltd >> Kew Victoria >> www.bms.com.au >> >> On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Tom Rutter <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> What web hosting company do you guys know of that offer lots of disk >>> space? I haven't been able to find any more than 10GB. Cheers >> >> >> >
